St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-24
STORMY TIMES AHEAD
Grevy Agrees to Resign the
Presidency Of the French
Republic,
And 1t Looks as Though There
Might Be a Bloody Rev.
oIution.
Alleged Important Revela-
tions Regarding the I'm
pPisoned Dynamiteps.
The Condition Of the Crown
Prince Of Germany--A
Prisoner Stripped.

PARIS, Nov. 23.-President Grevy to-
lay informed NJ. Maret. Radical men,
ber of the chamber of deputies for the
department of the Seine, that he had de-
cided TO resign. He said he would to-
morrow ask NJ. RibOt to form a minis
try to surperintend the meeting of the
congress of the senate and the chamber
of deputies. which will select a new
president. If NJ. Ribot should refuse TO
form ministry he will ask NJ. Goblet to
do so. VI. Grevy further stated
that he will not &Quit his
post before issuing an address
to the country in which he will repudi
ate responsibility for the present state
of affairs. and declare that his retire
ment is forced by the impOsSibility of
governing the country. He will depart
from the presidency with the sincerest
wishes for the future of the republic.
1t is stated that during his interview
with NJ. Maret to-day President GIevy
was greatly affected. and pleaded
piteously for time. VI. Maret, how
ever, was Obdurate. He said that
too much time had been lost already;
that it was the duty of the president to
resign immediately and that he should
send a message to the chamber not later
than Saturday. 1t is reported that NJ
Grevy worked at the message until a
late hour tonight.
a secret meeting, attended by NM.
Clemenceau, Crane. LOckrOy. ROchefOrt
and others, was held tonight to discuss
Grevy. 1t is rumOred that all
military candidates were rejected.
The commission investigating the Will
son scandal has resolved TO keep secret
important evidence given by two wit
nesSeS yesterday.
SINISTER RUMORS
were aflOat Yesterday to the effect that
the flag of the revolution had been
raised in the diSaffected suburbs of
Belleville and La Villette. Ehe people
on the bsulevards spoke with bated
breath as to the probability of
one of those famous deScents
which mark historical epOchs in
the dramatic annals of France being
imminent. Some color was lent the
Supposition by the fact that the revOlu-
tiOnary clubs were busy Monday night,
and that stormy meeting of socialists
and anarchists had taken place in a cafe
on the Place de la Republique The
meeting separated amid great uproar,
resolving to await events. The most
effective and vigorous preparations
are being made by the military
authorities with a view to check
ing the first symptoms of the revolution
in Paris. Troops are ready for work at
moments notice, while numerous de-
tachmentS of marine infantry continue
TO arrive in Versailles from Cherbourg,
BreSt and TOuloh. In calculating the
outcome of the French crisis, little
thought, apparently. is given to the pos
Sibility that the governmental system
MAY BE REVOLUTIONIZED.
Yet, if the friends of Prince Victor
Napoleon are to be believed, the
chances of that gentleman'S enjoying
what he and they deem to be his rights
are increasing daily, and the time is not
far distant when a Napoleon will be
again at the head of French affairs.
France is stake worth playing deS-
perate game for, and the BOnapartists
may soon have an opportunity to prove
what hold their claims have on the
affections of the French peo-
pie. An ardent follower of
Prince Nictor'S fortunes, who has
seen the rough draft of proclamation
to be issued by the prince at a suitable
time, describes the document as having
been written with mnch ability and an
to bring out the latent enthusiasm for
the NapOleonic dynasty which he firmly
believes turks in the bosom of every
true Frenchman. Recapitulating the
unhappy ending of the four NapOleOns,
the proclamation repeats the absurd
libels that the second bearer of that
name was poisoned by the Austrians
and the fourth betrayed by the English
to the Zulus. The BOnapartists, like
the Orleanists, insist that the higher
clergy in France are and must be hos
tile to a republic, and that from their
teachings the women and children are
carefully imbued with the wholesome
doctrine that the best interests of the
country demand a return to a more con-
servative and permanent form of gov
ernment.
CHICAGO'S INTEREST.
CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-A particular in
terest in the news that NJ. RibOt will
probably form the new French cabinet.
is felt in Chicago. 1t arises from the
fact that NJ. RibOt married daughter
of the late Isaac n. Burch of this city,
and was in Chicago but a few months
ago to settle claim of Mr.. Burch's
second daughter growing out of the
famous Burch divorce case.